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australia | rosella |

As a proper noun Australia

is a country in Oceania. Official name: Commonwealth of Australia.

As a noun rosella is

a parrot belonging to any of the five to eight species in the genus Platycercus (originally specifically Platycercus eximius) which is native to Australia and nearby islands.

australia

English

(wikipedia Australia)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A country in Oceania. Official name: Commonwealth of Australia.
  • * 1693 : translation of a French novel by Jacques Sadeur (believed to be a pen name of ) titled Les Aventures de Jacques Sadeur dans la Découverte et le Voiage de la Terre Australe'' published 1692, translation published in London in 1693. Quoted in ''The Australian Language by Sidney J. Baker, second edition, 1966, chapter XIX, section 1, pages 388-9.
    • This is all that I can have a certain knowledge of as to that side of Australia ...
  • * 1814 , (Matthew Flinders), A Voyage to Terra Australis , volume 1 ( at Project Gutenberg)
    • Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original term, it would have been to convert it into AUSTRALIA ; as being more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth.
  • (geology) The continent of Australia-New Guinea. New Guinea and the intervening islands are also on the Australian tectonic plate and are thus geologically considered part of the continent.

    • Synonyms

    * (country) Aussieland (colloquial), land down under, New Holland (historial), Oz (colloquial), Terra Australis (historical) * (continent) Meganesia, Sahul

    Hypernyms

    * Antipodes

    Derived terms

    * Aussie * Australasia * Australia Day * Australia Felix * Australian * Australianism * Eastralia * Order of Australia * Westralia

    Related terms

    * Austria * Austrasie

    See also

    * * AU * Aust *

    External links

    * Australia time zones with map and map current local time in Australia. English words suffixed with -ia ----

    rosella

    English

    (wikipedia rosella)

    Etymology 1

    Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of (Rosehill).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A parrot belonging to any of the five to eight species in the genus Platycercus'' (originally specifically ''Platycercus eximius ) which is native to Australia and nearby islands.
  • *1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 138:
  • *:Molly […] had glimpsed a future, like a rosella , hardly seen, swooping through the high umbrellas of the bush.
    • See also
    * lorikeet

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
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